Paul Celan (1920-1970) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of pos...

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the da...

A few months before his death, Paul Celan described "Schneepart" as his "strongest and boldest" book. A response to the turbulent events of 1968 – the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the attempted assassination of a student leader in Berlin – the...

Paul Celan is among the most important German-language poets of the century, and, in George Steiner's words, "almost certainly the major European poet of the period after 1945". Language, Celan said, was the only thing that remained intact for him af...

Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the H...

Paul Celan is the greatest German-language poet after Rilke. His "intolerable wrestle with words and meanings" evolved an inimitable originality. He dominates literature in the aftermath of the Holocaust by means of his attempt to redeem the human to...